La SantÃsima Trinidad de Paraná
La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná (, The Holy Trinity to Paraná ') is a former Jesuit reduction in the district of Trinidad in the department of Itapúa, Paraguay.
The ruins of the plant are located near the center of the modern town of Trinidad and is 28 km from the Paraguayan border town of Encarnación away. The former Jesuit Reduction was established in 1706 by the priest Juan de Anaya, 1728 had approximately 4000 inhabitants. It was declared jointly with Jesús de Tavarangüe by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1993.
Beginning of the 17th century made the Jesuits in today's 3-country area Brazil - Argentina - Paraguay attempt to combine primitive Christianity with the indigenous population. The missionaries that the Guaraní Indians gave up their ancestral home in the jungles and their nomadic life and settle made in the Jesuit settlements succeeded. Under the leadership of the Jesuits emerged as major achievements in the arts and crafts, agriculture and livestock. The Indians were able to sit in the landscaped cities for a long time against the later ones slave hunters to fight back. In 1767 the Jesuits were expelled but finally and began the disintegration of the cities. The Indians were either left to their own fate, or were used by the Spanish colonialists for slave labor.
Today, worth seeing are the remains of the planned Juan Bautista Primoli church with the bell tower, the baptismal font, the pulpit and the sacristy. La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná applies thanks to the also existing remnants from the main square, the cemetery and the residential buildings of the Indians as the best preserved Jesuit reduction in the region.